Why does Copy and Paste in the DeploymentWorkbench Not Work?

Question

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the reasoning for including the copy and paste option in the Task Sequences section of the Deployment Workbench but when I copy a TS and paste it into a new folder it looks like it copied and pasted.
But when I edit the properties of the newly copied TS the original copy is changed also.
So if I want to copy a good TS from my Beta Testing folder and paste it into my Stable Release folder and then go back and make changes to the beta folder version it will change both.

I don't know if this is a glitch or just my misunderstand of the copy and paste function but I have proven it does the same on several other systems running Version: 6.3.8456.1000
Anyone else noticed this?

Answer 1

Hi, @rhoutz

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

When you copy a task sequence in MDT within the same deployment share, using the Deployment Workbench, you only get a link to the original task sequence.
So if you change the copied task sequence, you will also change the source task sequence.

So how can we create a duplicate of a task sequence? We have two options:

1. Create a new task sequence in the Deployment Workbench, go the control folder, and copy the content of the task sequence folder you want to copy in to the new task sequence folder.
2. Use powershell to duplicate a task sequence.

For more details, you may refer to below article:
https://www.deploymentresearch.com/duplicating-task-sequences-in-mdt-2013-lite-touch/
(Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information.)

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